You need to give yourself space that things might not turn out the way you want them to. By continuing to use the site, it is considered that you agree to use cookies for these purposes. The people would say 1 for 1. At the reception, the evident athletes, 19 of them - athletes, swimmers, wrestlers, water polo and basketball players and rowers, along with six coaches, represented the entire delegation consisting of 168 members, of which 86 athletes. The finals in shot put by Stipe Žunić must also be mentioned here. However, due to her chronic foot pain, she cancelled her appearances in both Lausanne[50] and Monaco in order to get ready for the Beijing World Championships. “It started when I realised I could not even force myself to think about quitting,” the now 36-year-old Vlasic said. There will be around 10500 athletes from 205 countries performing at the Games during 16 days, competing in 33 sports: athletics, badminton, cycling, boxing, open water swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics, golf, hockey, wrestling, sailing, judo, kayaking/canoeing, equestrian sports, basketball, fencing, modern pentathlon, football, volleyball, beach volleyball, swimming, rugby, handball, synchronized swimming, diving, table tennis, archery, shooting, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, water polo and rowing. 2008: Victory at the World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing. At 2.04 m, the Croatian is the first one to go over. [65], Blanka is today a member of the 'Champions for Peace' club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organisation. She is the Croatian record holder in the event, and the former indoor world champion. Vlasic was diagnosed with Haglund’s deformity, a condition in which a bony structure forms where the Achilles tendon attaches to the heel. In the finals there were as many as 17 female athletes. [51] To her, the silver medal felt like gold after all she had to go through in the previous years, and more specifically recalling she could not walk for days in early July. Na 53. skupštini HOO-a u Zagrebu prihvaćen proračun za 2020. Chicherova fails and Friedrich attempts 2.06 m, which she almost clears. I was thinking about this virus and what was going on, we were fighting for our existence. By the start of competition it was like a knife was in my foot, tearing apart my Achilles. Vlašić cleared 2.00 m on six out of seven occasions in the circuit. I Mateša i Bach čestitali Sportskim novostima 75. obljetnicu izlaženja, Čelnici krovnih udruga na sastanku u Ministarstvu turizma i sporta, Kolinda Grabar Kitarović imenovana u MOO-ov Odbor za izbor domaćina (Z)OI, Predsjednik HOO-a Zlatko Mateša premijerno ugostio članicu MOO-a Kolindu Grabar Kitarović, Izaslanstvo EOO-a vrlo zadovoljno nakon posjeta domaćinima EI 2023. During the final, the duo was joined by reigning world silver and olympic bronze medalist Anna Chicherova, who took the lead with a 2.02 m first-time clearance. (Hina) – Having Sara Kolak win gold in Javelin Throw, Šime Fantela and Igor Marenić win the first Croatian Olympic gold in Sailing (Men’s 470) and advancement of the Croatian Olympic Water Polo Team Rio 2016 to the finals, the twelfth day of Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be remembered as one of the most successful days in the Croatian Olympic history. [16] She is the first Croatian athlete and the first high jumper to win this award. Vijeća HOO-a prihvatilo mjere za unaprjeđenje statusa sporta u RH, 22. sjednica Vijeća HOO-a u utorak, 22. siječnja 2019., u Zagrebu, Na 27. obljetnicu primitka HOO-a u olimpijsku obitelj Mateša i Čop čestitali Veliki dan hrvatskog sporta, Vrhunski sportaši i sportašice, budući ugovorni pričuvnici OS-a, započeli vojnu obuku u Požegi, Olimpijka Vedrana Malec bit će hrvatska predstavnica na Forumu sportaša MOO-a u travnju, Čelnici HOO-a Mateša i Čop čestitali Janici rođenje sina Oskara, U petak (7. prosinca 2018.) Only four jumpers cleared the 1.97 m height, none of them able to go over 2 m. The gold went to Spanish jumper Ruth Beitia who cleared the heights in her first attempts and the silver to Bulgarian Mirela Demireva, who had one failed attempt at the starting height of 1.88 m. Blanka was the last Croatian athlete to compete in the 31st Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.